June 2010
“Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That’s relativity.”
- albert einstein
“Every single person has at least one secret that would break your heart. If we could just remember this, I think there would be a lot more compassion and tolerance in the world.”
— Frank Warren
growing up…
is not quite the pat on the back that’d you’d think it would be.
Today: I walked the streets with the confidence of the others.
Today: I was Kelly, not Kelly via someone else.
Today: I lived vicariously through no one.
Today: I breathed.
Lessons From Life
Life isn’t fair, but it’s still good.
When in doubt, just take the next small step. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.
Your job won’t take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and parents will. Stay in touch!
Pay off your credit cards every month.
You don’t have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.
Cry with someone. It’s more healing than...
My Sunchips got stuck in the vending machine today.
My weak frame just couldn’t shake em out =/
You’d think with all these technical advances, the University would be able to purchase working vending machines !
Just another reason to hate this place. September will quickly become unbearable.
Wake me up when it ends .
” Nothing’s ever for sure. That’s the only sure thing I do know. “ - A Beautiful Mind
Oh! The Places You’ll Go!
” I’m afraid that some times you’ll play lonely games too. Games you can’t win ‘cause you’ll play against you. All Alone! Whether you like it or not, Alone will be something you’ll be quite a lot. And when you’re alone, there’s a very good chance you’ll meet things that scare you right out of your pants. There are some, down the road between hither and yon, that can scare you so much you...
Drinking cinnamon tea listening to the sound of the raindrops outside…. summer dreaming feels a century ago.
“I didn’t want any flowers, I only wanted
to lie with my hands turned up and be...”
– Sylvia Plath
Keep the Ginger Alive.
At St. Paul’s cathedral in London, figurines tell the story of the fall in the Garden of Eden. Adam points one hand to the forbidden fruit and the other to a golden haired Eve. Then the arch angel drives them from the garden. Adam with his fig leaf loops his arm around Eve who is now cowering and sporting a main of long red hair. Similarly in the paintings of the Sistine Chapel in 1874,...
After Monroe’s death, DiMaggio claimed her body and arranged her funeral. For 20 years, he had a half-dozen red roses delivered to her crypt three times a week.
happy birthday Ms. Monroe<3
” The truth is I’ve never fooled anyone. I’ve let people fool themselves. They didn’t bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn’t argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn’t. When they found this out, they would blame me for disillusioning them—-and...
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Meet Joe Black.
Joe Black: I don’t care Bill. I love her. William Parrish: How perfect for you - to take whatever you want because it pleases you. That’s not love. Joe Black: Then what is it? William Parrish: Some aimless infatuation which, for the moment, you feel like indulging - it’s missing everything that matters. Joe Black: Which is what? William Parrish: Trust, responsibility, taking the weight for your...
“You spend all your time preaching about waiting for love. Well here it is. Right...”
“I hate the phrase “Hurt people hurt people.” I understand it. And it ‘makes sense’ but aren’t we all hurt? Don’t we all have “something”? At what point, do you decide that you’re not going to use the master’s tools? At what point do you say, I’ve been hurt, I refuse to inflict pain. I refuse to send more hurt people out into the universe. At what point do you stop the cycle? People do it....
“Go forth and set the world on fire.”
-St. Ignatius
“It has gotten to the point where if I had to choose between falling in love and...”
– Nikos Kazananski
